Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Sawyer Rob]

I needed a few white oak "saw logs", and a friend had some on his property. He owed me some saw logs to pay me back for a project I did for him, so he told me to have at his white oak tree's. I would have liked them to be bigger, but beggars can't be choosers!! lol

So, today was "white oak Monday" as I hooked my wagon to the tractor and drove to his property and took a few of them out. Of course I wanted the firewood out of them too, so I skidded the firewood logs out with saw logs,

And once I had them skidded to my wagon, I loaded them up,

Once home, I took the saw logs out of the wagon, then cut all the firewood logs to fire wood lengths. With THAT done, it was time to split all the firewood, and I ended up with a nice pile of "primo" firewood out of those tops,

That's it for today!

SR

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

I was doing some maintenance on one of our ATV trails. Cut trees and using the tractor to fill in bad areas with rocks. The razor broke down and I had to tow it out

 

[Creamer]

I needed a few white oak "saw logs", and a friend had some on his property. He owed me some saw logs to pay me back for a project I did for him, so he told me to have at his white oak tree's. I would have liked them to be bigger, but beggars can't be choosers!! lol

So, today was "white oak Monday" as I hooked my wagon to the tractor and drove to his property and took a few of them out. Of course I wanted the firewood out of them too, so I skidded the firewood logs out with saw logs,

And once I had them skidded to my wagon, I loaded them up,

Once home, I took the saw logs out of the wagon, then cut all the firewood logs to fire wood lengths. With THAT done, it was time to split all the firewood, and I ended up with a nice pile of "primo" firewood out of those tops,

That's it for today!

SR

Sure wish I had your toys!

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Sure wish I had your toys!

he sure is deck good and knows how to use them. He seems to be a man that enjoys his work.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Thanks guys... I try to buy the best tools I can find, as they make my work easier...

AND I buy those tools with the money I save on my yearly heating bills...

Thanks again,

SR

 

[4570Man]

Thanks guys... I try to buy the best tools I can find, as they make my work easier... AND I buy those tools with the money I save on my yearly heating bills... Thanks again, SR

How much wood do you burn a year? It seems like you're constantly splitting wood.

 

[MossRoad]

Speaking of yearly heating bills and firewood.... I posted this back in 2010. Still holds true today....although natural gas prices have dropped considerably since then. When I really take everything into consideration, for heating my house, if I put a monetary value on my hourly time spent felling, cutting, splitting, stacking and hauling firewood, I don't save much if any money by heating with wood VS working the same number of hours at a minimum wage job.

From 2010:
If I move well and don't mess around it takes me about 4 hours (4) to drop enough trees for the entire year (we burn 6 cords), then about an hour per cord to cut into firewood size pieces, so another 6 hours. (that's 10) Then another 6 hours to load it (that's 16). Then another probably 2 hours to split and stack each of the 6 cords so 12 hours (that's 28).... plus driving time, repairs, etc... let's say 32 hours and that makes 4 full days of work this year to heat my home. Then it takes me about 3/4 hour every two weeks to haul in wood to the basement.... 6 months of wood burning, so 12 trips to the wood pile so another 9 hours on top of the 32 for a total of 41 hours, or about a full work week out of my life.

If I worked for $10.00 an hour at, say, 40 hours, I could make $400.00 (before taxes). I saved about $800.00 in natural gas last year by burning wood (this was 2010 gas prices. It would have only been $600 this year, 2015-16). So I came out ahead a few hundred bucks. The advantages don't seem much monetarily, as I make more than $10.00 an hour. However, I get a bunch of exercise, I enjoy being outdoors, I enjoy running a chainsaw, I enjoy running a tractor, I enjoy vigorous work in snow on a sunny day at -20, I enjoy the heat of the stove, the smell of the wood and the feeling of working for warmth. Call me kooky!

 

[Jim Timber]

Dug a root ball out.

 

[Rustyiron]

That one look's like it put up a good fight!
May all the rest of your stumps be smaller and somewhat rotten:laughing:

 

[supertaster]

Did you get yourself a self-releasing snatch block to use with that winch? It can make things much easier when you need to pull around a corner or avoid damaging a tree along the route of your pull

No. It was on my list but not in the budget.
It's a big $ here.
After using this twice, the snatch block has been moved up in priority. I have been alone and the wood lot has obstacles everywhere. Not like the smooth, clear forest floor pictures I see on here.
I couldn't get any video or pics the other day. The flies were on a mission to carry away my new winch for their own projects. Will work on getting some for context.
So the snatch block is now deemed necessary.